High potential and gifted education

At Beaumont Hills Public School, we are proud to align our approach with the NSW Department of Education’s High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) policy, which recognises the diverse strengths and needs of gifted and high potential students. We are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive learning environment that challenges and extends all learners, ensuring they are engaged, motivated, and able to reach their full potential. Our programs are designed to identify and nurture giftedness across multiple domains, reflecting the Department’s emphasis on catering to the whole child. By embracing a broad view of giftedness, we aim to foster excellence not only academically but also creatively, physically, and socially, preparing students for lifelong success and wellbeing.

Our approach focuses on four key domains:

Creative Domain: We provide opportunities for students to develop innovative thinking and artistic expression, encouraging originality and problem-solving through diverse creative activities.
Intellectual Domain: We challenge students with enriched learning experiences that promote higher-order thinking, deep inquiry, and advanced knowledge across the curriculum.
Physical Domain: Recognising the importance of physical development, we support students in enhancing their coordination, health, and physical skills through targeted activities and sports.
Social-Emotional Domain: We prioritise the emotional wellbeing and social development of gifted students, fostering resilience, self-awareness, and positive relationships to help them thrive within our school community.

At Beaumont Hills Public School, we are dedicated to implementing the NSW Department of Education’s HPGE policy by providing a comprehensive, student-centred approach that nurtures the potential of every learner across these four domains.

Why choose us for your high potential or gifted child?

Recognising potential and developing talent

Our teachers find potential and nurture our students to be the best they can be.

Tailored lessons

Each student has different abilities. Teachers respond to each student’s ability by providing extra challenges and extension activities to keep learning exciting and engaging.

Rich opportunities and activities

Students can take part in opportunities to develop their talent in the arts, sport, leadership and more.

Opening doors to wider experiences

Our students can participate in a wide range of state-wide opportunities that aim to extend and enrich student potential.

What is high potential and gifted education?

High potential and gifted education (HPGE) is how our school supports students with advanced learning needs.

We do this through:

effective teaching strategies like enrichment, extension and acceleration

tailored support during lessons that stretch, challenge and inspire

access to a wide range of opportunities both within and beyond our school.

Our high potential and gifted education opportunities

Our students engage with HPGE education in the classroom, in our school, and across NSW.

In our classroom

Creative Domain:
- Quality CAPA programs
Intellectual Domain:
- Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking (e.g. Extras for Experts)
- Individual learning goal setting and feedback
- Essential Assessment - dynamic formative assessment
- Flexible groupings across cohorts
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance
Physical Domain:
- Quality class sport programs
- Opportunities to take on lead roles in physical demonstrations or team strategy.
Social-Emotional Domain:
- Get Happier program
- Opportunities for leadership within the classroom

Across our school

Creative Domain:
- K-2 Choir and Years 3-6 Choral Choir
- Dance Groups
- Drumming Group
- Band program
Intellectual Domain:
- Chess Club
- Debating
Physical Domain:
- Sport carnivals
- PSSA sport competitions
- Gala Days e.g. Paul Kelly Cup
- Swim scheme
- After school sport clinics
Social-Emotional Domain:
- Get Happier program
- Peer Play Leaders
- Library Leaders
- K/6 Buddy program
- Wellbeing teacher
- Student Representative Council (SRC)
- School Leaders
- Sport Leaders
- Leadership Development Program (Years 5 and 6)
- Peer Support Leaders
- Kindergarten and High School Transition Programs

Across NSW

Creative Domain:
- Performing Arts Festivals (local and state wide)
- The Arts Unit: Operation Art
- The Schools Spectacular (individual students)
Intellectual Domain:
- The Premier's Spelling Bee
- The Premier's Reading Challenge
- Writer's Festival
- G.A.T.E.ways gifted education workshops
- Opportunity Class testing
- Selective High School testing
Physical Domain:
- Premier's Sporting Challenge
- Zone and state carnivals
- The Representative School Sport Pathway and PSSA and CHSSA events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at regional, state and national levels, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration
Social-Emotional Domain:
- NSW Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition